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TUNIS, Aug 29 – Islamist militants killed three Tunisian soldiers and wounded seven others on Monday, opening fire on them with rifles and rocket propelled grenades after their patrol hit anti-tank landmines, an army spokesman said. Jihadists use the remote, mountainous region along the Algerian border as a base and the military has been hunting

LAHORE, Pakistan, Aug 29 – Pakistani police said on Sunday that three militants suspected of being behind an attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in the city of Lahore in 2009 had been killed during a shootout. The three men, along with a fourth alleged militant who was also killed, were in police custody travelling

By Mariya Gordeyeva and Olzhas Auyezov ALMATY, July 18 – Suspected Islamist militants killed at least three policemen and a civilian in Kazakhstan’s financial capital Almaty on Monday, security sources and witnesses said, and authorities said one gunman was still at large. The attackers targeted a district police station and an office of the KNB